Friday Night is Music Night 

Sunday Night Is Music Night

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The world's longest-running live orchestral programme featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra

The world's longest-running live orchestral music programme on radio, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra and broadcast from locations throughout the UK

Sunday Night is Music Night: The Beatles Orchestrated

The Beatles Orchestrated

BBC Radio 2 - Sunday Night is Music Night, The Beatles Orchestrated

Guy Garvey presents a unique performance of the Fab Four's music from Abbey Road Studios.

Guy Garvey presents a unique performance of the Fab Four's music from Abbey Road Studios. Featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra with Cerys Matthews, Katie Melua and Rick Astley.

In celebration of Paul McCartney's 80th birthday, another chance to hear Guy Garvey present a unique performance of the Fab Four's music from Abbey Road Studios. It features the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Jules Buckley performing with guest singers Cerys Matthews, Katie Melua, Ruby Turner, Mark King and Level 42, Rick Astley, Oli Rockberger and the London Contemporary Voices. 

This takes place in Abbey Road's iconic Studio One, the setting for many of the Beatles' groundbreaking sessions of the late 1960's,  as heard on albums including Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road, which was released on 26 September 1969.  

This concert includes rarely heard arrangements of Beatles favourites arranged by their producer and the man dubbed 'the 5th Beatle', Sir George Martin.  

Among the songs featured are Come Together, Something, Golden Slumbers, We Can Work It Out, A Hard Day's Night, She's Leaving Home, The Fool On The Hill, The Long and Winding Road and Hey Jude.

First broadcast in 2019.

Amazing music. Played by an amazing line up.

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